MISSISSIPPI GENEALOGY INFORMATION WE'VE COLLECTED
In 1976 my grandmother Helen Mason Smith called and asked me to drive her to the Department of Archives and History in Jackson. Being fifteen, and having a brand new driver license, I wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity to drive to the "big city."
Her answer may have caused me to roll my eyes a bit as I asked her what she was looking at. She said, "Right now I'm looking at the Civil War record of your great-great-granfather." I was shocked. "They still have those" I asked? "Move over a minute." I've been hooked on genealogy and family history ever since. All because I had a new driver license.
Thirty years ago I met Tammy, a wonderful young woman who shared my interest in genealogy. It was the best day of my life!
We've gathered a lot of information over the years, and we are going to share it here along with our personal genealogy. Most of the information we are sharing is related to central and south Mississippi....but you never know what else you may find....
written by my friend, historian Bill White
The recorded history of Mississippi began with the coming of the Europeans. More specifically, with the expedition of Hernando De Soto, who is credited with the discovery of the Mississippi River. However, long before De Soto arrived in the area now known as Mississippi, perhaps as much as 10,000 years earlier, Native Americans inhabited, planted and hunted the land. They navigated the "Father of Waters", fished and built their villages along its shores, and raised countless new generations teaching them each in succession to respect the land and to live in harmony with it.
By the 16th century, there were three predominant Native American tribes living in the area. The Chickasaw occupied the lands in the northern and eastern portions of the state. The powerful Choctaw tribe lived in the central portion of the state ranging northward to the Chickasaw lands in the northwest and southward in the east. The Natchez occupied the lands in Southwestern Mississippi.
With the arrival of the Europeans, the record of Mississippi history began to change and grow rapidly as the new settlers interacted with the natives. The settlers traded with the Native Americans, learned from them about the wildlife and vegetation of this new country, and domesticated the land from which they pushed them. It was the continuation of an old story that would last for another 350 years.
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A collection of interesting things about our state.
Obituaries & BiographiesObituaries have always been an integral part of any genealogical research. Thankfully, in todays digital age it has never been easier to find this information. Be sure to visit our Obituaries & Biographies page to see what's there. If you have Obits you would like to share send them to Gerry's Genealogy
LocationsFred was one of the first people buried in Greenwood Cemetery. This cemetery is one of the oldest in the city. Many of our family members are buried there as early at 1868. Add information here about this cemetery. Where is the place located? Who lived there? What other details are interesting?
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We've been researching
this family name for over 30 years. I found lots of information at the State
Archives, but once the internet exploded with genealogy, many more doors
have been opened for me to research.
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